What is this thing taking over my rainbow tubes colony

[Alexx]

I tried to dip in Iodide and scrape around and still no luck. Did this 2 times already. How could I get rid of this thing from the coral?

 

[Coral reefer]

Frag a piece without it and throw away. Looks like the dreaded clove polyps

 

[Alexx]

Frag a piece without it and throw away. Looks like the dreaded clove polyps

aa I think I saw this at Garvin, in his tank long time ago; they are miniature clove polyp. I got clove polyp but these are really tiny ones, they don't grom longer like the other ones. I really need to get rid of these guys then. Don't want them reaching out on my rock

 

[Kensington Reefer]

What Mike said
That shit is the worst
Cleave and remove
You can’t move fast enough!
I’ve torn down systems due to this horrible clove polyp

 

[JVU]

Agree clove polyps. Hate those.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

I have heard that blue knee hermits might eat it
There’s got to be an obligatory consumer...as of yet I haven’t found it

 

[Kensington Reefer]

@Alexx
These polyps are as bad or worse than aiptasia!
My sympathies

 

[Apon]

mine all died out for some reason after years of having them....kind of liked them

 

[Alexx]

You tend to like things other don't like

 

[ashburn2k]

get a copper band, i had one that eats it

 

[Coral reefer]

mine all died out for some reason after years of having them....kind of liked them

I bought them
Once and was bummed when they died. Then I wound up with them. Lots of them

 

[Darkxerox]

I had those hitchhike over on an aussie Homophyllia australis and it never regrew onto the edge that the polyps were extending onto. So commensal at best but likely outcompete growth wise.

 

[Patio]

I had a smaller variety come in on a frag purchased online a few years back. Luckily they were isolated on a frag rack but started growing through and finally killing the frag.

 

[BAYMAC]

I had those hitchhike over on an aussie Homophyllia australis and it never regrew onto the edge that the polyps were extending onto. So commensal at best but likely outcompete growth wise.

I've had it take over entire tanks. Its as commensal as aptasia.... commensal to aquaria

 

[Kensington Reefer]

@BAYMAC
Ya know anything that easts it?

 

[BAYMAC]

@BAYMAC
Ya know anything that easts it?

Man, afraid not I shut tanks down because of it.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Man, afraid not I shut tanks down because of it.

Me too
That shit’s the worst!
I’ve suffered the same when a crop of anthelia got out of control

 

[ashburn2k]

@BAYMAC
Ya know anything that easts it?

my copper band ates it, they came back after I sold the fish.

 

[Coral reefer]

I had a “Halloween” urchin that either ate or scraped it off rocks. I had too many for it to eradicate them though.
I saw it at aquatic collection in one of their old bathtub style systems and there was a clear streak in the blue cloves on the wall where it had just gone through. I demanded they sell it to me and they did. It lived many years.